i know tommy manning personally from many years ago. Mr. Ferrer was not like tommy at all. i think he did a pretty good job at portraying him though but, it was not real to me because i knew him. the movie was slow and undramatic. Mr. Manning is still of the same mindset that he was back in the days of committing the crimes. he is a prisoner at leavenworth and will remain there for a long time. he will have a hearing for parole in the year 2010. i personally do not think that he will get parole due to his unchanged attitude. although i liked him way back in the 60's, he hasn't learned that violence is not the answer. i would like to see the movie redone with a little more drama.
7 Reviews
Average scripting with a great cast
Leofwine_draca20 December 2017
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HUNT FOR JUSTICE is one of many TV movies from the IN THE LINE OF DUTY series, all of them based on fact. Each film is fairly low budget and plays out events in a grittily realistic way and this one is no exception. The hunt is on for a gang of terrorists who have murdered a cop in the line of duty, and middle-aged Adam Arkin is leading the squad. The best thing about this film is the cast which is made up of endless familiar faces. Miguel Ferrer, Dean Norris, John Carroll Lynch, Melissa Leo and Stephen Root are welcome presences in any production and they're typically solid here, making this more watchable than most TV movies despite the deficiencies of the scripting.
Not Good But Not Bad
shelbythuylinh5 December 2021
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About people who on the outside have families and jobs but on the inside they are robbing banks to support their terroristic and extremist views.
After Nicholas Turturro's state detective good friend and godfather of the state trooper's son, Dan Lauria killed in the line of fire.
But the murder turns into a extreme terrorism there. And that is where he meets an arrogant jerky FBI guy Adam Arkin.
Arkin is elusive and does not want anybody to butt in on his turf but it is the other way around. How he overlooks and does not care over in the FBI bringing morale down there.
He later has to work with Nicholas character and both men have more in common than one meets the eye. Still hate it when the feds are portrayed as smug holier than thou jerks.
After Nicholas Turturro's state detective good friend and godfather of the state trooper's son, Dan Lauria killed in the line of fire.
But the murder turns into a extreme terrorism there. And that is where he meets an arrogant jerky FBI guy Adam Arkin.
Arkin is elusive and does not want anybody to butt in on his turf but it is the other way around. How he overlooks and does not care over in the FBI bringing morale down there.
He later has to work with Nicholas character and both men have more in common than one meets the eye. Still hate it when the feds are portrayed as smug holier than thou jerks.
Cops and Feds
Prismark109 June 2016
This true crime story focuses in the murder of a state trooper who had a good inkling of stopping suspicious vehicles that occurred in 1981.
Nicholas Turturro plays an enthusiastic young cop who was the partner of the murdered trooper and reluctantly teams up with arrogant FBI agent, Adam Arkin to find the culprits who are traced to be members of a left wing domestic underground terrorist group involved in robberies and blowing things up.
The film benefits with familiar faces such as Miguel Ferrer, Stephen Root, Dean Norris and future Oscar winner Melissa Leo.
The story is rather generic, an upset and eager cop going after the bad guys who killed his partner, teamed up with a more aloof FBI agent. Even the bad guys who do not want to kill ordinary people even cops but one of them is trigger happy leading to devastating results.
At least the terrorists were more interesting as a whole with a focus on their families and mores.
Nicholas Turturro plays an enthusiastic young cop who was the partner of the murdered trooper and reluctantly teams up with arrogant FBI agent, Adam Arkin to find the culprits who are traced to be members of a left wing domestic underground terrorist group involved in robberies and blowing things up.
The film benefits with familiar faces such as Miguel Ferrer, Stephen Root, Dean Norris and future Oscar winner Melissa Leo.
The story is rather generic, an upset and eager cop going after the bad guys who killed his partner, teamed up with a more aloof FBI agent. Even the bad guys who do not want to kill ordinary people even cops but one of them is trigger happy leading to devastating results.
At least the terrorists were more interesting as a whole with a focus on their families and mores.
Usual Cops Vs Feds Stuff!
ShelbyTMItchell5 September 2012
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Really even though as one reviewer says that the terrorists despite being what they were, despite doing wrong and were in need of being brought to justice. Came off with sympathy and had families that they wanted to feed. Even though you weren't suppose to sympathize with them.
It is the arrogant attitude of the feds that ruined the movie for it seems people like m.
Arkin's arrogant agent, as all federal agents that Hollywood makes them out to be butted heads with state cop Turturro. As he threatened to arrest Turturro but Arkin was really interfering into not letting Turuturro do his job.
Even though it started out with them butting heads, Arkin realized he needed the state cop's help and in the end, they worked out well. As Turturro knows the place and if they had an agent that was from there, it might had helped despite Arkin's character being from Boston.
Really it proved it was the typical cops vs feds stuff. Not good but not bad.
It is the arrogant attitude of the feds that ruined the movie for it seems people like m.
Arkin's arrogant agent, as all federal agents that Hollywood makes them out to be butted heads with state cop Turturro. As he threatened to arrest Turturro but Arkin was really interfering into not letting Turuturro do his job.
Even though it started out with them butting heads, Arkin realized he needed the state cop's help and in the end, they worked out well. As Turturro knows the place and if they had an agent that was from there, it might had helped despite Arkin's character being from Boston.
Really it proved it was the typical cops vs feds stuff. Not good but not bad.
Good entertainment
Booyah24 March 2000
It's a TV movie,you should expect that there aren't going to be mind-blowing special effects.
And, to be honest, this movie is a bit weird in that the cops are relentlessly hunting "good bad guys." The "terrorists" are a freedom front that wants to destroy the means of production of certain companies for political reasons, but they try to make sure no one gets hurt (which, of course, backfires). So it's hard to "root for" the cops because the movie makes you sympathize with the terrorists and their families: ordinary people in almost every sense.
Arkin and Turturo provide good performances...Stephen Root (also of Newsradio) is very good in a much different role than people are used to seeing him in. Miguel Ferrer is decent.
And, to be honest, this movie is a bit weird in that the cops are relentlessly hunting "good bad guys." The "terrorists" are a freedom front that wants to destroy the means of production of certain companies for political reasons, but they try to make sure no one gets hurt (which, of course, backfires). So it's hard to "root for" the cops because the movie makes you sympathize with the terrorists and their families: ordinary people in almost every sense.
Arkin and Turturo provide good performances...Stephen Root (also of Newsradio) is very good in a much different role than people are used to seeing him in. Miguel Ferrer is decent.
Big disappointment
TC-45 March 1999
This movie was on one of those premium channels, the kind you have to pay extra for. The storyline read real good. After watching it for about 10 minutes it looked really cheaply made. Sure enough, this was nothing more than a TV Movie passed along as a real movie. The plot I have seen before many times in better movies. There was absolutely no chemistry between any of the actors who looked as though they had just read their lines just before walking on the set.
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